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Prospect Info: Hartford Wolf Pack (AHL)/Maine Mariners (ECHL) Thread *Part X*

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Pack surrender 3 goals in less than six minutes, including 2 in 14 seconds. I'm glad this season is almost over.
 
Second Period

Surprisingly, Ronning lacks NHLness. You'd think the son of a long time NHLer would have it in spades, but no, everything he does takes 3 times the effort an NHLer expands.

The main offensive drivers for the Pack are St. Amant and Fogarty, explaining the zero goals 35+ minutes into the game.

Besides confidence, what else improved by Day this year?

Mess needs good linemates. He's a passenger, not driver.

Goal: Lindgren catches the puck, short pass to Day, quick shot and it went in because Gettinger blocked the goalie's view. No assist for Getts, but he was the most important player on the goal. The other 2 just made easy plays. 1-1
 
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Third Period

Really strong penalty shot save by Halvy. Didnt give much at all.

Gropp repeatedly tries to do too much.

Suddenly Halvy is a quality AHLer. Good progress.

McCambridge is not a bad coach. The team works hard, a good number of players improved as the season went on. Just the talent isn't there.

Someone needs to explain to me how Lindgren is better than Craw. Granted Lindgren is a year younger, but at least now, Craw isn't worse. Neither has top 4 potential. I'd be happy if either one of them became a quality NHL 6D.

Goal: one time from the right circle by old friend Saarela. 2-1.

Goal: Lindgren skates slowly, positions his body badly, doesn't know what to do to fix the situation he screwed up, so a simple Pack play somehow resulted in a goal against. Lindgren should be punished for this. 3-1

Goal: As soon as Halvy is pulled, there's a partial breakaway into an empty net by the Checkers. 4-1

Even when the game was tied, it never seemed in doubt that the Pack will lose.
 
Beacon said:
Besides confidence, what else improved by Day this year?
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Small improvements everywhere, bigger improvements in gap control, decision making (mostly with the puck but also without the puck). Still has ways to go defensively but he's far from the defensive black hole he was 2 years ago when he had no gap control and basically just stood in front of his own net in the DZone.

With the puck his first pass is quick and mostly crisp (he keeps it kinda short) and over the course of the season he's gained confidence to start skating with the puck more again which is obviously his biggest strength, he kept it a bit too simple to start his pro career which is to be expected i guess.
 
FWIW with what McCambridge has to work with I'd be surprised if they win at all the rest of the year. We've got all their main offensive guys except for Fogarty right now. Meskanen, Gettinger, Fontaine, Beleskey (who didn't play last night), Butler (who should be an offensive threat and isn't) and Gropp and then a bunch of ECHL'er's and two guys we just signed to AHL deals out of college is the forward group.

Raddysh seemed to be a good player when we brought him in for Holland. He was Grand Rapid's leading offensive point producer from D. He's provided almost no offense and was a -4 last night. Bigras is out hurt. O'Gara came back from injury after a long spell last night. We have Crawley, Lindgren and Day. I don't know what happened to Bergman--maybe he's hurt too but I think he kind of sucks anyway.
 
Själin's team Leksands is currently up 3-2 after 2 periods. If they can hang on, they take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-7 vs Mora. Unbelievable!
 
As of now (some things can/will change), Hartford for next season likely looks something like this:

  1. Vitali Kravtsov (NHL?)
  2. Vinni Lettieri
  3. Matt Bellesky
  4. Steven Fogarty
  5. Ville Meskanen
  6. Ryan Gropp
  7. Gabriel Fontaine
  8. Jake Elmer
  9. Patrick Newell
  10. Timothy Gettinger
  11. Nicholas Jones (AHL contract - ECHL?)
  12. Ty Ronning (ECHL?)
  13. Dawson Leedahl (ECHL?)
  14. Morgan Barron (stays in school?)
  15. Patrik Virta (Will he be signed?)
  1. Yegor Rykov (NHL?)
  2. Ryan Lindgren (NHL?)
  3. Brandon Crawley
  4. Darren Raddysh
  5. Tarmo Reuanen
  6. Joey Keane
  7. Sean Day
  8. Chris Bigras (RFA with a serious concussion - will he return?)
  9. Julius Bergman (going back to Sweden?)
  1. Igor Shestyorkin (NHL?)
  2. Brandon Halverson - (resigned as an RFA?)
  3. Adam Huska
We are going to need one more fwd and one more defenseman on NHL contracts playing in Hartford, plus a few contributing Vets signed on AHL deals (this is if no trades are made - which there will be). Nico Sturm outta Clarksson University would be a welcome addition to sign soon - with some good potential too. The potential log jam in net (including the big club) and the Seattle expansion draft implications|strategy will be interesting to follow too.
 
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Mariners lose 7-4 to Adirondack. Nell pulled after allowing three goals on six shots. Maine's lost four in a row, largely due to goaltending. and has tumbled out of a playoff spot. They are three points out with four games to play, although they have a game in hand on the two teams (Manchester, Brampton) three points ahead of them.
 
McCrae attended Rangers development camp two years ago. The team know him well.

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Add the Big, Senior Defenseman Alec McCrea from Cornell on an AHL deal. Rangers scouts have seen him plenty while watching Morgan Barron. Him and The lanky German Nico Sturm.
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